The United States has prepared sanctions against Russian banks, Reuters reported

View of the Moscow Kremlin. Archival photoMOSCOW, February 21 — RIA Novosti.The US administration has prepared sanctions against Moscow that prohibit US banks from processing transactions for large Russian banks, Reuters reports, citing sources. This is a «preliminary» package of restrictive measures that Washington will use only in the event of Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine.Measures , as reported by the Western media, are aimed at damaging the Russian economy by breaking the «correspondent» relations between the banks of the parties, which forms the basis of global cash flows. According to the agency's interlocutors, the United States also intends to use sanctions against certain Russian individuals and companies help to blacklist them (SDN-list), which will exclude them from the US banking system, prohibit trading with US citizens and freeze their assets in the US. jpg» />EU threatens to strike at Russia's «weakest spot» Russia's alleged plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Russia are categorically denied and constantly say that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Moscow does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around the neighboring side. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. Statements that Moscow is allegedly preparing provocations in Ukraine continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported at a meeting with Putin on Monday that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» On Tuesday, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said that the Southern and Western military districts had begun returning troops to their places of deployment. Russia Failed for WarPublished: Nikita Stoma